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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Newport News

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, July 1866–July 1867 (321), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.68.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Newton (Dispensary)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, December 1867–December 1868 (326), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.73.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Plantation Department

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, July 1864–July 1865 (88), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 4.1.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Princess Anne (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, July 1867–April 1868 (475), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.78.5
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Quitman (Agent)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, April 1867–June 1868 (333), has no consistent arrangement to the entries.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.75.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Richmond (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, December 1866–December 1868 (417), is arranged chronologically, and there is a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.80.3
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Savannah (Agent)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, December 1866–April 1868 (346), is arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the correspondent and thereunder chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.82.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Savannah (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The three volumes of registers of letters received and endorsements sent and received, March 1867–August 1872, 1 (394), 2 (395), and 3 (396), are arranged by time period. There is a name index in volume 3 (396). For letters entered in the volumes, see the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.81.4
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Stockton (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, July–December 1867 (369), is arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the correspondent and thereunder chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.85.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Warrenton (Agent)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, June 1867–November 1868 (386), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.87.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent and Received — Warsaw (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent and received, January 1867–November 1868 (447), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.90.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Anderson Court House (Acting Subassistant Commissioner – Anderson District)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, March 1866–August 1867 (104), are arranged by type of record. The entries in the register of letters received are arranged by the initial letter of the surname of correspondent and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.4.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Appomattox Courthouse (Assistant Subassistant Superintendent)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, October–December 1868 (112), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.5.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Ashland (Assistant Superintendent)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, March–June 1866 (107), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.6.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent by the Superintendent of Education — Gordonsville (Superintendent, 4th District)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent by the superintendent of education, January–February 1869 (240), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.34.11
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Chester (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, July 1867–June 1868 (145), is arranged by year and thereunder arranged in chronological order and numbered. For a name index to this series, see the single–volume unnumbered name index…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.16.3
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Christianburg (Montgomery County, Assistant Superintendent)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, January 1867–December 1868 (134), is arranged in chronological order and numbered. A list of contents is in the front of the volume.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.15.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Commissary of Subsistence

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent (37), dated February 1867–May 1868 and February–July 1867, is arranged and numbered in chronological order through August 1867 and thereafter chronologically without numbers. The volume…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 3.1.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Culpeper Courthouse (Culpeper County, Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, March–May 1867 (144), is arranged chronologically. The volume also includes complaints, June–Sept. 1868.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.19.1
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Cumming (Agent)

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The single-volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, April 1867–December 1868 (229), is arranged chronologically and has a name index. For letters entered in the volume, see the series of letters received (April 1867–December 1868)…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.34.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Darlington (Acting Assistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, November 1867–December 1868 (173), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.21.5
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Darlington (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent, January–May 1868 (170), is arranged in chronological order and numbered and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.20.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Demopolis

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The single–volume register of letters received and endorsements sent (137), April 1867–November 1868, is arranged chronologically. It is primarily a register of letters endorsed or forwarded. The letters received are all unregistered letters. For fair…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.5.2
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Register of Letters Received and Endorsements Sent — Elyton

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The register of letters received and endorsements sent, May–July 1868 (152), is arranged and numbered in chronological order with a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.6.2
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